poisonmochi

The strong start really got me hooked for the first few episodes but after that became repetitive.

The “second life” trope isn’t new with c-dramas and there are many good ones out there like the double, blossom etc. But I felt the pacing for ashes to crown is pretty bad.

While it is a journey to revenge by FL, I felt it had a lot of back-and-forth. There was a lot of plotting and backfiring and after a while it just felt repetitive. Maybe the director was trying to add depth with the multilayered persona and “talking to self” but instead of adding depth it also added confusion?

And some actions of FL doesn’t feel “logical”. It felt childish and wilful for no reason. E.g expecting the ML to just serve her willingly and run errands for her while she remains as the “ultimate” mastermind of every “scheme”. The scheme itself weren’t deep and her actions were just.. childish? None of the plots felt intense despite the dramatic editing and pretty cinematography.

For someone plotting for revenge, she seems to be “revealing” herself upfront too much, so much so that the enemy has the chance to plot back against her. I.e the scene of her second chance in life, despite knowing she has went back in time after checking out the current time, she still decided to act out against her fiance and said she’s gonna unalive him. Isn’t this revealing her cards early?? It allowed him to be wary of her already. Maybe this was intentional. Maybe this just wasn’t for me.

Unfortunately I got bored and dropped it.